"life expectancy" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: life expectancies [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} life expectancy (countable and uncountable, plural life expectancies)
  1. (of a person) The amount of time one is expected to live. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Time Translations (the amount of time one is expected to live): مَأْمُول اَلْحَيَاة (maʔmūl al-ḥayāh) [masculine] (Arabic), esperança de vida [feminine] (Catalan), 平均壽命 (Chinese Mandarin), 平均寿命 (píngjūn shòumìng) (Chinese Mandarin), 預期壽命 (Chinese Mandarin), 预期寿命 (yùqī shòumìng) (Chinese Mandarin), forventet levealder (Danish), levensverwachting [feminine] (Dutch), elinajanodote (Finnish), eliniänodote (Finnish), espérance de vie [feminine] (French), Lebenserwartung [feminine] (German), προσδόκιμο ζωής (prosdókimo zoḯs) [neuter] (Greek), μέσος όρος ζωής (mésos óros zoḯs) [masculine] (Greek), जीवन प्रत्याशा (jīvan pratyāśā) [feminine] (Hindi), várható élettartam (Hungarian), születéskor várható élettartam (Hungarian), lífslíkur [feminine, plural] (Icelandic), aspettativa di vita [feminine] (Italian), 平均余命 (heikin yomei) (alt: へいきんよめい) (Japanese), 平均寿命 (heikin jumyō) (alt: へいきんじゅみょう) (Japanese), forventet levealder [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), forventa levealder [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), średnia długość życia [feminine] (Polish), expectativa de vida [feminine] (Portuguese), esperança de vida [feminine] (Portuguese), speranță de viață [feminine] (Romanian), продолжи́тельность жи́зни (prodolžítelʹnostʹ žízni) [feminine] (Russian), esperanza de vida [feminine] (Spanish), förväntad livslängd [common-gender] (Swedish), tuổi thọ (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-life_expectancy-en-noun-E2G0zERL Disambiguation of Time: 50 50 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 50 50 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 50 50 Disambiguation of 'the amount of time one is expected to live': 68 32
  2. (figuratively, by extension, of an idea or an object) The amount of time something is expected to last. Tags: broadly, countable, figuratively, uncountable Categories (topical): Time Translations (the amount of time something is expected to last): odotettu kesto (Finnish), żywotność [feminine] (Polish), esperanza de vida [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-life_expectancy-en-noun-zOE20sqO Disambiguation of Time: 50 50 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 50 50 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 50 50 Disambiguation of 'the amount of time something is expected to last': 33 67
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: afterlifetime

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    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "the amount of time one is expected to live",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "expectativa de vida"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "the amount of time one is expected to live",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "esperança de vida"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "the amount of time one is expected to live",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "speranță de viață"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "prodolžítelʹnostʹ žízni",
      "sense": "the amount of time one is expected to live",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "продолжи́тельность жи́зни"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "the amount of time one is expected to live",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "esperanza de vida"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "the amount of time one is expected to live",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "förväntad livslängd"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "the amount of time one is expected to live",
      "word": "tuổi thọ"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "the amount of time something is expected to last",
      "word": "odotettu kesto"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "the amount of time something is expected to last",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "żywotność"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "the amount of time something is expected to last",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "esperanza de vida"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "life expectancy"
  ],
  "word": "life expectancy"
}

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